It’s just one of many instances where his particular vocabulary, however, is not an aid to understanding but a hindrance. Except in Ford’s vocabulary, it often means “not doing something anymore at all.”The tricky part of this one is that it is very difficult to even tease apart what it means. We were able to check it at all because, back then, the Fords helpfully provided a breakdown of what savings they were talking about. One is an expense for the city, one is new revenue for the city, but the Fords just added those two numbers together. Then, in some cases, they counted the expected budget savings over seven years of specific moves in their four-year total.

Source: thestar May 08, 2018 22:18 UTC